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The unlevel playing field : a documentary history of the African American experience in sport
- Title
- The unlevel playing field : a documentary history of the African American experience in sport / [edited by] David K. Wiggins and Patrick B. Miller.
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2003.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xxi, 493 p. : ill.; 27 cm.
- Series Statement
- Sport and society
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Antebellum ordeals: slavery, sport, and the prospects of freedom -- Striving for success: African American athletes in the early period of Jim Crow, 1865-1915 -- Parallel institutions: Black sports between the world wars -- The quest for racial reform: affirmation and protest in the sporting realm, 1920s and 1930s -- African American athletes and democratic principles: interpreting the desegregation of sport, 1940s and 1950s -- Sport, the Civil Rights Movement, and Black Power, 1960s and 1970s -- Progress, protest, and alienation in the sports factory, 1970s and beyond -- Black cultural commentary: race relations and sport at the turn of the Twenty-first century.
- Call Number
- Sc F 03-763
- ISBN
- 0252028201 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2002014269
- OCLC
- 50554347
- Title
- The unlevel playing field : a documentary history of the African American experience in sport / [edited by] David K. Wiggins and Patrick B. Miller.
- Imprint
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2003.
- Series
- Sport and society
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Wiggins, David Kenneth, 1951-Miller, Patrick B.
- Research Call Number
- Sc F 03-763